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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Any small market team can't afford the deferrals. Thinking the Rays or A's can pay him $68 million a year for 10 years to not play is insane. This level of deferral is only something the richest teams can afford. And seeing as this reduces the Dodgers luxury tax hit those same small market teams get less money in the end. If this were a small portion of the contract being deferred, that'd be one thing, but it's literally 97% being deferred. Good for the Dodgers exploiting the rules, but like most things where exploiting the rules are possible it's mostly the richest that can do it.
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There's no exploiting. Take a finance course. It's a 46m/year contract. Anyone who can afford to pay him that can afford this contract. If a team doesn't want the bank end liability, then invest 46m/year during the playing years to pay it out, which is exactly the same thing as paying him 46 million/year in cash.